{"id":30499,"date":"2021-01-01T22:40:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T22:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/?p=30499"},"modified":"2021-01-01T22:44:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T22:44:10","slug":"new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/?p=30499","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kjetprvd-dc0bce2da462429175b882476aef673b\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kjetprvd-dc0bce2da462429175b882476aef673b img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kjetprvd-dc0bce2da462429175b882476aef673b .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kjetprvd-dc0bce2da462429175b882476aef673b av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-30504 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-30504 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/new-year-5862204_1280.jpg\" alt='A stylized, bright gold \u201c2021\u201d with a clock striking 10 p.m. as the \u201c0\u201d, on deep brownbackground, with the words, &quot;Happy New Year&quot; in bright gold, all reflected horiztonally.' title='new-year-5862204_1280'  height=\"723\" width=\"1280\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/new-year-5862204_1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/new-year-5862204_1280-424x239.jpg 424w, https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/new-year-5862204_1280-80x45.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/new-year-5862204_1280-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/new-year-5862204_1280-705x398.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kjesonns-aff19b859037fe9341ae63584d15fab4 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>So 2021 is upon us. Last year I made the resolution to <a href=\"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/?p=29964\">#ReadEverySingleDayThisYear<\/a>, and read more books last year than I did in the previous 5-7 years.<\/p>\n<p>I read 47 novels, 2 novellas, and re-read one novel before starting the second book. One thing that helped with that is having a Kindle. Small type and fine print is getting a little hard to read these days, so being able to increase font sizes for reading makes things easier.<\/p>\n<p>So on to 2021. I&#8217;m still going to read, just not every day.<\/p>\n<p>Two things I want to do every day are write, and play guitar guitar. I&#8217;m going to continue to get into better shape (Closed all three rings on my Watch 232 days in a row), and I&#8217;m going to keep that going.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to get at least 8 new apps up on the Mac and iOS app stores this year.<\/p>\n<p>The next four apps will be one for batch converting YouTube subtitles (.sbv) to SubRip (.srt), one utility text case-changing app, a subtitle formatting app, and a transcription app before getting back into Unity apps.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also be spending way less time on Social Media this year. Too much frigging doom-scrolling, so I&#8217;ve set limits.<\/p>\n<p>So, Happy New Year to folks reading this, and here&#8217;s to a year that&#8217;s much brighter and better than the rancid septic tank that 2020 was!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My New Years Resolutions:<br \/>\nMore writing, playing guitar, more apps finished, and less social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30499"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30516,"href":"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30499\/revisions\/30516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark-sweeney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}